Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

[Dale]

David Relson wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100
> Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>
>
>> On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to
>>> use.  I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can
>>> span them over more than one CD if needed.  Some of what I have will
>>> require several CDs.  It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it
>>> but it is not required.  I searched using equery and emerge -s but I
>>> can't seem to find much.  Oh, GUI would be nice too.
>>>
>>> Is there anything out there that would do this?
>>>
>> I've never used it myself, but I read an article somewhere about it
>> and seems that mondorescue can do that:
>>
>> http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml
>>
>> However, I'm not sure about its portage status: it seems that all the
>> versions are masked (for x86 at least). The relevant entry in
>> package.mask says
>>
>> "has security issues and will be removed from portage
>> due to upstream behaviour, see bug #106497"
>>
>> but that comment is rather old (more than one year) and it's still in
>> portage. Furthermore, the mondorescue home page shows many
>> gentoo-related downloads.
>>
>> Maybe there's someone else using it that hopefully can give you more
>> detailed information.
>>
>
> I've heard good things about the package, installed it yesterday, and
> will soon give it a test.  In my case, I'm interested in creating a
> bootable CD so that I can have a functioning system able to restore my
> system from an external hard drive :->
>
Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and
could be restored that way.  I only have one CD drive at the moment so
something to boot from would be nice.

I'll check into that though.  I have heard of it too.  It just didn't
show up in my search.

Thanks

Dale

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